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Master of Middle-earth – Paul H. Kocher – Ballantine Fourth Printing, 1981
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Paul H. Kocher’s influential study The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien in the December 1981 fourth Ballantine printing, with Greg and Tim Hildebrandt cover art.

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Master of Middle-earth – Paul H. Kocher – Ballantine Fourth Printing, 1981


Paul H. Kocher’s influential study The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien in the December 1981 fourth Ballantine printing, with Greg and Tim Hildebrandt cover art.



Kocher’s pioneering critical study examines the moral, philosophical and imaginative structures that unite Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings.

Bibliographical details:
– Author: Paul H. Kocher
– Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
– Edition: Fourth printing, December 1981; first Ballantine edition October 1977
– Year: 1981
– Format: Mass-market paperback; cover illustration by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt
– ISBN 0-345-30636-8

Condition report:
The wrappers show moderate shelf wear, creasing and rubbing at the extremities, with an intact spine and a normally toned text block.

A classic piece of Tolkien criticism in an unmistakably vintage Hildebrandt wrapper.

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